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Biography
Reagan Waskom currently serves as the Director of the Colorado Water Institute and as Director of the Colorado State University Water Center. Dr. Waskom is a member of the Department of Soil & Crop Sciences faculty with a joint appointment to the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at CSU. In addition, Reagan currently serves as the Regional Director of the USDA-CSREES Integrated Water Program. Reagan received his BS and MS degrees from Texas A&M University and his PhD from Colorado State University.
Selected Research and Outreach Projects include: Irrigation water optimization in water limited environments, evaluation of municipal water conservation programs, ammonia volatilization from sprinkler applied swine effluent, aquifer vulnerability to NO3 contamination, evaluation of runoff water quality from western meadows, development of best management practices for crop production, survey of current irrigation management practices to evaluate constraints to BMP adoption.
Coordination and administrative activities include: teaching responsibility for the GRAD592 Water Resources Seminar held each fall semester, organized the USBOR funded National Produced Waters Workshop and edited conference proceedings, coordinated Cooperative Extension Drought Response in 2006, currently serve as the Project Director for the 6 state Region 8 USDA-CSREES Water Program to deliver integrated programs on water and water quality,work with faculty at Montana State University wnd the University of Wyoming on landowner issues relative to coal bed methane development, currently oversee 319 funded NonPoint Information and Education program funded at CSU.
Other Research Interests
Water policy; Irrigation
Contact
Office: Engineering E102
Office Phone: (970) 491-6308
Email: reagan.waskom@colostate.edu
Website: http://www.cwi.colostate.edu/